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Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 7 – Playbill.com

Posted on August 15, 2010

Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 7 By Ernio Hernandez and Robert Viagas 07 Aug 2010 1919 Actors' Equity calls the longest strike in American theatre history. Francis Bacon's Lightin' and 12 other Broadway shows go dark as the fledgling union's struggle for recognition moves to the picket lines. Four days later, the chorus in Flo [...]

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'Red,' a play about art, is big winner at Tonys

Posted on July 14, 2010

NEW YORK – If you weren't watching the Tonys too carefully, you would have thought they had turned into the Oscars. Sunday's show was a night for celebrities and for the meaning of celebrity, when Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Catherine Zeta-Jones took home their first Tonys, and when the most honored play, "Red," [...]

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Actress Betty Lou Keim dies

Posted on February 06, 2010

Betty Lou Keim, who played Frank Sinatra's out-of-control niece inthe 1958 melodrama "Some came Running," died Jan. 27 at her home in Chatsworth, Calif., after a battle with lung cancer. she was 71. Keim also portrayed a daughter having trouble communicating withher divorced mom Ginger Rogers in "Teenage Rebel" (1956) afterperforming the role a year [...]

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